Chapter 751: The Navy Begins
Scheer they achieved their goal, personally manipulated such a huge battleship of almost 50,000 tons, they obtained these two super battleships, almost more than any battleship on the slipway or launched in this era, it is the first real super dreadnought, perfect class, high-speed battleship, if the only thing that is a little flawed is that the air defense of this ship is a little worse, this is a natural deficiency.
The navy of this era has not yet realized the importance of air defense, but Yang Yuanzhao knows that the performance of the aircraft has not yet reached the level of threatening warships, but with the passage of time, the level of various technical equipment is changing with each passing day, the bomb-carrying capacity and functionality of the aircraft are deepening, and the air has become a new place of destruction, and a warship without air defense is almost congenitally insufficient.
On the fantasy class, Yang Yuanzhao has tried his best to leave a margin, but unfortunately this is a battleship based on the artillery era, the design of a qiē, are closer to the artillery war, if the air defense is forcibly set up, the strength of the fantasy class will be greatly reduced, you can't always think about a few years, or even more than ten years later, make a four-like out, it is better to strengthen the advantages of a certain aspect, the future is a big deal to let this battleship go forward, specifically for the aircraft carrier battle group to design a protective cruiser.
The high-speed sprint of the fantasy class again and again, the repetition of my early training subjects again and again, the cannon kept roaring, shooting out shells one by one, thousands of shells, just like a fried fish. During this period, even because of the lack of shells, they were sent over twice by the supply ship, and in the excitement, the sailors were a little exhausted. Located in the middle of the command and battery, it is responsible for collecting several jù command system teams. They also collected enough jù, and they all recorded the number jù. Wireless telegraphy was transmitted to the base in Qingdao, where hundreds of programmers and software experts began to carry out a series of programming on this to reduce unnecessary calculations, enhance computing efficiency, and gradually complete the control system.
Now the overall system has been preliminarily completed, relative to human manipulation. This response speed is 12 times larger, and the accuracy has also increased by about 60%, which can be used as actual combat, but for the sake of secrecy, there are also the next plans related to double ships, or even four ships, which require faster computing speed, greater software design, and more fuzzy calculation methods. But once done, when double boats, triple boats, or even more boats. After completing a system, the more artillery fire is involved, the power and hit rate will also be greatly improved. Maybe under the staggered fire, you can hit the opponent in the densest area of fire. There is even the possibility of sinking with one blow.
Of course, this is a lot of work. In Yang Yuanzhao's plan, this system will be used in the future Chinese fleet, will not be used on German ships, in which, it is just a simplified separate aiming system, so that the combat effectiveness of this ship can be greatly increased, the unique optical aiming technology, faster response and command system, will make the accuracy of the artillery higher, completely avoid the uncertainty brought by feeling and luck, and firmly compress the space towards the enemy ship.
A day after the arrival of the first batch, the second batch, almost more than 2,000 German sailors, the two ships returned to the Qingdao shipyard, where they would carry out simple maintenance, mainly the replacement of the gun, the power system and the bottom of the ship, because the cost was less, only a little cleaning, but the guns had to be replaced.
10 days of high-intensity training, almost 20 15-inch naval guns were scrapped, looking at the continuous large-caliber artillery fired, slightly deformed cannons, Schell couldn't help but sigh, it was really a hearty training, in Germany has never been trained so ruthlessly, even in the case of a certain problem in the barrel, the gunners still rely on experience, to excite, on the one hand, it proves the quality of the barrel, on the other hand, under special circumstances, this is also a valuable experience, This is absolutely impossible to waste in Germany.
With more than 8,000 rounds of shells, Scheer also understood the power of this battleship. It also made him clearly understand the strength of this ship, and as soon as he returned to the Qingdao shipyard, he sent a report to the Admiralty, from his personal experience, carefully described the power of such a ship, the existing battleships, in a one-on-one situation, none of them are his opponents, even the Bavarian class in the design, and before large-scale refit, it may not be the opponent of such a battleship.
Tirpitz received the telegram, stunned and faintly proud, this cooperation intention, was promoted by him this was formed, I thought it was just a few qualified warships, but I didn't expect the northwest to have such a strong production capacity, actually just came into contact with the battleship, and exerted its power to such a chengdù, which is simply incredible.
If Fabian's statement could also be the designer's boasting about the battleship, Scheer's opinion was almost conclusive, and he believed that this student, his opinion, also confirmed a lot of the number of fantasy classes from the side. Hardly any hesitation, Tirpitz reported to Wilhelm II that no matter what happened to the other ships, these five Fantasy-class battleships have surpassed the Bavarian class and become the strongest battleship formation in the future High Seas Fleet. When fleets that are not much different in numbers meet, it is almost overwhelming.
The German Admiralty recognized this ship, and even some couldn't wait to ask this ship to enter service, this deal was basically completed, the excellent performance of these warships, Scheer was satisfied, and the Admiralty and Wilhelm II were also extremely satisfied, and specially telegraphed Scheer's side, as long as the northwest side, the ship could be allowed to enter service as much as possible, and some aspects did not have to be too rigid, and a lot of concessions could be made.
It was this order that made the always strict Scheer relax a lot of scales, agreed to the conditions of the northwest side, and gave more places to the northwest side. From the very beginning, when trading this warship, it was impossible for the German side to transfer enough personnel, and in the end it was only 19,000 people, and it was impossible to give full play to the full effect of the entire fleet to be able to reluctantly sail these ships, so the Northwest took the opportunity to put forward a request, in addition to replenishing the number of the fleet, it could also have a part of the trainees, and the final figure was 14,000 on board.
Regarding this number, from the very beginning of the plan, it has been contested for a long time, the northwest side has always wanted to increase the number of places, Germany has never spat out, when the battleship, the personnel exceed a certain distance, it will cause personnel congestion, and it is not suitable for sea trials.
This time, with the strong advantage of the fantasy level, after several rounds of negotiations, in particular, Scheer made certain concessions and increased to 18,000. Don't look at the increase of 4000 people, which represents the full crew of 4 battleships and the rated number of more than 8 heavy cruisers, for the northwest, battleships have never been a problem, welding and the emergence of a large number of new processes, so that the shipbuilding time in the northwest has been greatly reduced, from laying the keel to launching, it is at most 9 months, from now on, to the next batch of battleships to launch, 9 months, If there are 14,000 people, it is necessary to find nearly half of the personnel to be able to drive the battleship away, and now, it has been reduced a lot, and if 18,000 people are reluctant, they can already drive away, supplement some less important posts, let the newcomers run in, and have a ratio of new to two old and new, such a fleet is easier to form combat effectiveness.
Yang Yuanzhao knew very well that these people could be found in the northwest in a short period of time, all the personnel of the navy, including the old foundation of the Beiyang Naval Division, the naval fleet of the old Qing Court, and some of the personnel converted from the seamen.
Now, there are more than 30,000 fishing boats of various sizes in the entire Chinese maritime territory, and the fishermen engaged in fishing have almost reached one million, but fishermen are fishermen, although they have figured out something with warships, but after all, they are not a real navy, only real naval schools, can continuously train qualified naval officers and soldiers, especially in some high-tech fields, must be able to combine theory and practice to be able to train successfully.
Yang Yuanzhao has always paid attention to the military academy, otherwise he would not have started to look for Jiang Baili when the Northwest Army was just built, and successfully invited Lu Shi Sanjie to Qingdao, and also invested a huge amount of money, with the help of Jiang Baili, established a military academy, which became the finishing touch in the history of the northwest, even if later, after several crises in the northwest and several successive expansions, the strength of the army has not declined significantly because of rapid expansion, and the Northwest Military Academy has made great contributions.
The Navy is not an army, a naval academy, nor an army academy, China once had the Mawei Naval Academy, and also cultivated a large number of modern naval military talents.
However, after the Sino-Japanese naval battle, the Chinese's naval dream was crushed, and the horsetail still existed, but it had already declined, even if it was Beiyang, only three sea-class foundations were left, not to mention the rebuilding of the military academy, even if the navy was maintained, after the rearmament, it was very difficult to successfully exert the power of naval warships.
China does not have such talents, Yang Yuanzhao can only set his sights abroad, originally wanted to find a suitable principal from Germany, and then pull up the team, who knows, before it really took shape, the northwest official who was responsible for contacting Qingdao affairs, suddenly told Yang Yuanzhao that in Qingdao, there is a ready-made military academy, which is the navy. (To be continued......)